Science Education and Development: Planning and Policy Issues at Secondary Level

by Gabriele Gottelmann-Duret, Keith Lewin, Francoise Caillods

For over 30 years now large-scale investment has been made in science education throughout the world and in developing countries in particular. A handful of countries have indeed succeeded in raising their respective population's general level of scientific knowledge, but in other countries, in spite of much effort, the shortage in supply of science-trained students persists, examination achievement levels remain low, and the cost of provision so...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080427898
• ISBN13: 9780080427898
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"